River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-12-01
WEST AND SOUTH.

AT the session OF the National Grange at
lansing, Mica, ON the 22d officers We're
elected for the ensuing year. Put Darden,
of Mississippi, being chosen Worthy Master.
United states Commissioner of Agriculture
Colman addressed the convention on
sorghum raising
4 COMMITTEE was appointed on the 22d
to investigate a charge made by merchants
at Milwaukee that the railroads discrimi-
mated against that city and in favor of
Chicago in the matter of foreign freight
rates
II was stated on the 22d that Ex-senator
C. T. Jones of Florida was in financial
distress at Detroit He had been turned
ont Of hotels and restaurants, but had been
taken in charge by friend
By the official returns the total vote in
Ohio for Governor was 746, $50 General
Foraker's plurality, %, 1872 His vote was
800, 937.
AT Milwaukee. Wis, the golden jubilee of
Pope Leo XIII was celebrated on the Path
| by grand parade. Speeches were made at
/ the Exposition building. and the occasion
was memorable one.
II was reported on the Did that ex-Sena-
/ tor Jones, Of Florida. whose eccentric ac-
/ lions at Detroit had given rise to much
newspaper gossip. was a mOnomaniao He
/ believes himself to be the victim of con-
I spiracy which has been formed against him
/ y Democratic politicians and which now
/ threatens his life.
A CROWD of negroes who attacked apicket
/ at ThibOdeaux, La, composed of white
men on the 23d were fired upon by the
/ latter and sixteen men and one woman
, were killed. The ARRAY grew out of the
/ recent troubles upon the sugar plantations.
AT Ravenna. o., "Biinky" Morgan, con-
| victed OF the murder of Detective Hulligan
/ at the time of the rescue of McMunn, was
| sentenced on the 23d to be hanged March
Z Is, 1855. An appeal would be taken
I SUIT was brought by a daughter of the
| late ". G. Fargo, the millionaire express
man. on the 9th against the executors Of
/ Ills estate to compel them to pay her,
I $40. coo which she alleges they have
/ wrOngfully withheld
/ An fncendiary at Browning. Ill, fired the
home OF Char.es Fackler on the 24th, and
he and his wife and child persisted in the
flames
II was stated on the 24th that ex-Warden
I Harry Varnell. one of the convicted Chi
cago "boodlers." h I'd furnished States-At-
tOrney GrinneI with interesting informa-
ton relative TO the county bOodlers, and
will probably not go TO Joliet
JAMES q. DOUGLAS. at one time proprietor
OF the indianapolis undl Journal, and but
recently married, dropped dead on the
| 2ith in a theater in the above-named city
4 NEGRO named Hudson, who was arrested
at Mound City. Ill, was taken to Cairo on
| the Path for safe keeping he having con-
| fessed himself responsible for the burning
Of the LAWYER House at the former place
/ He says he was hired to commit the deel by
I a former landlord OF the hotel
/ The death OF Christian Iinde, vice-presi-
| dent OF The Wisconsin Medical Association
occurred at his home in Oshkosh on the
oath, at the age Of sevsnty-nine years
/ THROUGHOUT Southern Illinois heavy
rainfall which prevailed on the oath put
an end TO the disastrous forest fires that
have been raging in that region
THE first prize in the billiard tournament
| which closed at Chicago on the night of the
p was won by Carter, of Cleveland. with
Schaefer second, and Moulds, of St Louis,
third
The sudden death OF Alderman f n
Davis. of Lincoln, Ill, occurred on the oath.
He superintendent the building of the first
turnpike road in California ia 1852
IT was discovered on the 25th that
Charles Albert kebler. a Cincinnati attorney
who took his own life recently. had CON-
mitteJ many fOrgeries and embezzled trust
funds. the liabilities thus incurred reaching
SI75 600, while his assets were but $50,
600
AT Portrero, a suburb of san Francisco.
Cal. Two blocks Of dwelling-hOuses were
burned on the 2jth. thus rendering forty
families homeless The loss was estimated
at S75.OO0
MIS- MARTTS and her two children, Occu-
pving 4 cabin in tue woods in Henderson
| County, XIV, were burned 10 death by
forest fires on the 24th
MAJOR AeW. HENDRICKs.Sa cousin of the
late Wee President Thomas A. Hendricks,
was found dead in bed, az his home at
indianapolis. Ind. on the 18th His death
was due 70 hesrt-disease.
/ At Anna. O, an engineer and fireman
were killed in a smashkup on the Cincinnati.
Hamilton & DAYTON road on the 25th.
| TEE celebrated arson suit brought by the
California Fire Insurance Company against
Lambert Bishop the wire min company
az Joliet. IL, was won by the latter, the
Jury on the 25th returning = verdict OF no
| cause for action The Insurance company
Immediately appealed The defendants
would commence suit for $50. 600. charging
malicious prosecution
THRoUGHouT Michigan and at various
points in the West snow-storms were re-
ported on the 25th
AT q meeting Of the Chicago Local As
semhly No 1907, which formerly be-
longed 20 the Knights Of labor, aud OF
! which the Anarchist Parsons was . men,